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Today, after a considerable hiatus; today, on 1234567890-morrow; today, on the 1,740th anniversary of the burial of St. Valentine of Rome — Penguin Sightings returns!

And with it, an invitation to enter a galaxy of danger and adventure, a realm where fortunes are made and spaceships are sunk, a place where typographical symbols masquerade as interplanetary vehicles in a vast world of science fiction: the ASCII Sector!

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Google Desktop is a very useful application, allowing you to quickly find files on your computer (or in your email inbox or on the internet, for that matter), and including a sidebar where you can put little gadgets and things. And it’s cross-platform, meaning pretty much anybody can use it. The Linux version, however, has two shortcomings: it’s closed-source, and it doesn’t contain the sidebar-and-gadgets stuff.

But today’s program solves for both of those!
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It’s always nice to be able to undo things. In real life, particularly, but that usually isn’t an option.

With computers, though, it is! Most software (particularly word processors and office-type stuff), nowadays, features an undo button; allowing you to revert things to the way they were before. But what if you don’t realize you’ve totally messed things up until a week later? After you’ve closed all applicable applications or permanently deleted files?

That’s when it’s time to click that system-wide undo button — and run Back In Time.
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An important part of pretty much everyone’s Linux system is a graphical windowing manager, with or without an attendant desktop environment — and, just like with every other aspect of open source computing, there’s many different options to choose from. Nearly everyone knows about Gnome and KDE, and statistics show that about 75% of Linux folks use one or the other. But there are many many other worthy environments available, some of which are downright awesome.

Like, for instance, Awesome.
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Those of you who read this site regularly, or pay attention to the dates at the end of each post, may have noticed that it’s been a while since I last posted anything here. This is, of course, due to many factors (I’ve been alternately very busy and very lazy, these past couple months); but one major one is the problems I’ve had with my computer. A while ago I upgraded my distribution to the latest version, only to receive a GRUB Error 21 upon rebooting. After hours of reading documentation, searching online, asking for help on IRC (Thanks, cathbard, MichMash, and EchoLynx!), and a couple reinstallations, I finally realized that all my problems were caused by a simple mistake in my GRUB menu.lst file, which was easily fixed.

But not before I had, somehow, corrupted my NTFS partition.
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Nowadays, being able to type well is a vital skill for just about everybody. If you use the internet, you need to be able to type (to a certain extent, at least) to do nearly anything — post on forums, participate in IRC chats, even just enter search terms for Google. Consequently, since you’re reading this website, you probably have acquired some typing skills already. But if you’re among those who wish to improve their current typing speed, or learn a different keyboard layout (like me), then Klavaro will prove quite useful.

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You’re racing along in your flashy new Ferrari Spider, nearing 200 miles per hour. The road ahead leads up a hill — but what a hill! It’s a perfect 45-degree angle! Unable to stop and ponder this geological oddity, you fly on up it, and over the top, sailing spectacularly through the air. And then immediately afterward comes an enormous loop-the-loop! You race up it, too, lose control at the top, spin off, tumble through the air, and land inexplicably intact — only to crash into a brick wall half a second later. This, my friends, is the world of Ultimate Stunts.

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If you’re anything like me, you probably find it quite easy to entirely forget things that you’re supposed to do in a day — particularly if your obligations take place in real life, and you’re using the computer. Perhaps you have a dentist’s appointment this afternoon, and just as you’re heading out the door to your doom, you decide to check your email one last time. Now it turns out one of your friends sent you a link to icanhascheezburger.com, and, whether intentionally or by accidental mouse reflexes, you click it. A little later you look at the clock — and realize you’ve just spent two hours looking at pictures of cute cats with hilarious captions, and completely missed your appointment. Considering the nature of the appointment, you might not be too chagrined; but another such incident could be disastrous.

Something must be done about this. You need some way to automatically remind yourself when things need to be done. And KAlarm fills the bill nicely.

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Once upon a time, nearly all computers came with a copy of the BASIC language. In fact, Micro-Soft’s first product was a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800. The BASIC language was thousands of people’s introduction to programming. It was the perfect tool for the speedy development of simple programs.

But then came the age of the graphical interface, and something new was required. The variant of BASIC that rose to the forefront was Microsoft’s Visual Basic, a language still popular today. It has, however, two major drawbacks: Visual Basic costs money, and it only works with Windows. Three, actually, if you count its great bugginess.

Happily, for freedom-loving Linux users like us, there’s an excellent alternative: Gambas.

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There will undoubtedly come a time in your life when it becomes necessary for you to have a look at a .chm file — a Microsoft Windows compiled HTML help document. It’s happened to me multiple times. Nearly all Windows programs use the chm format for their documentation, and some eBooks are chm, too.

But these are Windows help files. What to do if you exclusively run Linux? . . . Fire up KchmViewer!

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